Pirate Bay looks to disrupt new Swedish law

Team sets its sights on controversial monitoring bill

The Pirate Bay team has pledged to do everything that it can to fight against Sweden's recent ruling that it will monitor all phone calls and internet traffic that "leaves the country".

The torrent website – renowned for consistently defying authorities to keep on providing its wares – is Swedish in origin and has reacted with typical gusto in the face of the new law – which was narrowly passed last week.

A lot

"Many people have asked me what we're planning to do," Pirate Bay's Peter said in his blog. "The answer is 'a lot!'.

"We're going to help out in any way we can with fighting the law. This week we're going to add SSL to The Pirate Bay.

"We're also going to help out making a website about easy encryption - both for your hard drives and your net traffic.

"As some people know, we're running a system for VPN-tunnels already and we're going to lower the price for that as well and open it up for international users as well."

Target?

Peter also expresses his pleasure that Belgium has decided to take Sweden to the Strasbourg court for the law – which the Swedish authorities have brought in ostensibly to combat terrorism.

"As you all know, being a neutral country makes Sweden a target for all the terrorists of the world, apparently (sic)," adds Peter.